Helen Shenton

Sculptures of Rosalind Franklin, Augusta Gregory, Ada Lovelace and Mary Wollstonecraft to join 40 busts of men

New case and plinth designed to highlight the beauty of Ireland’s best-known treasure

Famous manuscript will be removed from public display until next March to facilitate conservation works

The 14th-century masterpiece is a ‘hidden treasure’ depicting the end of days

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Priceless 7th-century manuscript inspired the Book of Kells a century later

Fifty years after it opened in Trinity, the building is well loved, but not without critics

Futurologists predicted that libraries would have closed by now, but they have a key role to play in the knowledge economy

We discuss Simon Fujiwara’s Imma installation The Humanizer, here about perhaps the biggest game-to-film adaptation to date, and discuss why it’s a golden age for libraries